Charles W Morgan by texxn5 - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:64

[lesterpalifka]

John if anyone else is doing a Morgan I would be glad to give a hand.... Lester

[texxn5]

Thanks Les, I'll be sure and pass it on. I'm not sure I'm understanding the term "bend" at this point. I think I do, but for clarity and especially for anyone looking in here, can you be specific?

[texxn5]

Well, this turned out easier than I thought. Good catch Lester, it wasn't bad to retro the serving lines to the fixed mast tops. Fortunately they weren't glued to the hull, so all I had to do was put them in my Proxxon Vice and roll them by hand on the bench. I was able to complete that in one day so I'm very happy.

[lesterpalifka]

bending on means to attach one rope to another or some other object. sorry just used to using those types of terms when I'm talking about rigging....

[lesterpalifka]

like do you know what a baggy wrinkle is??????

[lesterpalifka]

its chafing gear made from old rope...

[texxn5]

Thanks Les, the bending is what I thought it was, but I must admit, the "baggy wrinkle" is new, even for an old salt! I'm familiar with most nautical terms, I just wanted to be sure. I'm ready to bend, however, I'm wondering if I need to hang the shrouds prior to bending so that there are no conflicts in angle or or lines and cross lines. Seems like the shrouds should be next???? Any advise?

[popeye the sailor]

masts are looking awesome John.......the added detail is very nice!

[lesterpalifka]

I'd finish up the futtock shrouds and then do your shrouds and add your tension thru the chain plate dead eyes... remember that the morgan had ratboards on the mast shrouds.....not ratlines...have a great day going out soon to dig out we have about 20 inches on the ground right now

[lambsbk]

Rat Boards!  I thought ratlines would be hard. Good luck with that one John.

 

Nice progress.

[texxn5]

Hi Dave, good to see you visit. Ratboards - yep, ratboards. I'll be lashing 1/32" square boards to the shrouds for making ratboards. Ratlines will be the upper lines so I get to do both...fun fun fun in the old shipyard tonight...not really tonight, but soon. Found out today, my paint won't be shipped until tomorrow.....no comments, took only a week to ship so I probably won't get it until next week.

[texxn5]

I think I'm going to continue building all the mast parts before moving on to the shrouds, that way as I keep moving up I'll be prepared to continue with the shrouds and not be held up by having to make mast parts. I'm not going to glue them together so that the shrouds will be able to be hung off easier, so I will just dry fit them. I stained the areas that need to be stained so that if I should get glue on anything it won't soak off into the wood and look "crappy" when staining it. So here is the Fore Top Mast. First I set up the mill to cut in the Fid, then moved on to make and stain the center section, then finishing all the trusses and sling band finishing with painting the rest of it.

[texxn5]

Thanks for the visits and the likes from everyone. Today was a continuation of stepping the rest of the Foremast. These are just dry fitted for now. I turned the Fore Topgallant and Royal mast today on my Proxxon DB 250 Lathe mostly using sandpaper rather than chisels to graduate the diameters of each. I then stained the natural areas, made the Futtock Shrouds for the Topmast Crosstree and served them, then made the Topgallant Crosstree painted and finished it. The Lookout Ring has not been installed yet. She's starting to get tall now and looking like a ship.

[texxn5]

A couple of more

[Piet]

Nicely done John.

 

Cheers,

[lb0190]

She is getting tall!

[texxn5]

Today was such a beautiful day here (sorry for all you New Englanders and northern folks) 80 degrees and bright clear sunshine. This was an opportunity to photograph the Morgan outside, so I'm taking the opportunity to show her off a little. I also made the Mizzen Top Mast, finishing it and making the Main Topmast. I used my Proxxon DB 250 Lathe to turn the Mizzen and Main Top masts and Royal. This is done from one dowel so I set it up in the lathe and used sandpaper to reduce the diameters down to the proper size. One nice advantage of this lathe is that the longer dowels can go through the center of the motor freely. You could stick a 5' or longer piece through it and just turn the area you want.

[texxn5]

Some more sunshine pictures

[texxn5]

A couple of more

[texxn5]

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[texxn5]

Here's the DB 250 Lathe set up and the Mill for cutting in the fids, sheaves, and squaring the mast tops.

[texxn5]

These pictures show the versatility of the Lathe. Working with the short end of the stick so to say, and the extra length sticking through the center of the lathe.

[edmay]

Hello John,One day I would like to get the proxxon mini lathe,(DB 250) any idea what ground freight would be, pm me as to the price plus ground shipping,nice view from your house Grrrrrrrr,. your build is coming along nicely .Edwin.

[texxn5]

Hi Ed, I have PM'd you, I need some information. Thank you for the interest. The little lathe is rally nice to use. With the Collet set and the Variable chuck on the tailstock, you can really control the spin and like today, I was turning a 1/8" dowel down to about 1/16" in 2 stages and had 100% control of the turn and the variable speed allowed me to sand it instead of turning it with a chisel. I think I impressed myself that this did not break with the pressure. It is my favorite tool.

[lesterpalifka]

John the masts are looking really great. she is looking like a ship. we were at about the same stage last year with the real deal.....only a lot colder outside last January...

[texxn5]

Hi Lester, thanks for the info. I'm very pleased with the overall appearance.

[texxn5]

Hello Lawrence, good to see you getting caught up. Thanks for the likes and kudo's. The outside pictures really did bring out the color scheme much better than the flash that might or might not work inside. I've had the Lathe for a while but the makeshift mill is kind of new. I had the drill press which is a MicroMark which ws made by Proxxon for them. I added the Compound Table, Precision Vice, and bought some Mills after I became a Proxxon Dealer. The Drill Press set up is not as precise as the MF 70 Mill, but will suffice for the type of work I have to do with it. Perhaps someday I'll upgrade to the real Mill. Having the Proxxon Store has allowed me to obtain a few things that otherwise I would have been unable to do. The extra income sure helps an old retired guy...

[texxn5]

Today has been finish-up day. I finished building the Mainmast comonents, Topmast, Topgallant Mast and Main Royal, painted, served and dryfit everything together. The only thing left for them is to make the 2 Lookout Rings and paint the lower part of each mast Yellow Ochre - if I ever get my paint--10 days now and it's scheduled for delivery on Feb 4....kind of ridiculous, sure am glad I had plenty to do in between. So all the masts are done for the most part - next will be the Shrouds....hmmm got to learn how to serve for real now.

[texxn5]

Now she can really be called a "Tall Ship"

[lesterpalifka]

secure your shrouds between two points then do your worming and then the parceling.. then serve.....don't forget to tar the worming and parceling.. use black tar for the serving... black tar is a mixture of pine tar paint black and shellack...then you will have real shrouding..... only kidding.......but that is the way it is really done will email you some pictures of the process....